Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Summary:

These data provide information on the number of arrests
reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in the United
States. These arrest reports provide data on 43 offenses including
violent crime, drug use, gambling, and larceny. The data received by
ICPSR were structured as a hierarchical file containing (per reporting
police agency) an agency header record, 1 to 12 monthly header
records, and 1 to 43 detail offense records containing the counts of
arrests by age, sex, and race for a particular offense. ICPSR
restructured the original data to a rectangular format.

These data provide information on the number of arrests
reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in the United
States. These arrest reports provide data on 43 offenses including
violent crime, drug use, gambling, and larceny. The data received by
ICPSR were structured as a hierarchical file containing (per reporting
police agency) an agency header record, 1 to 12 monthly header
records, and 1 to 43 detail offense records containing the counts of
arrests by age, sex, and race for a particular offense. ICPSR
restructured the original data to a rectangular format.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 1986. ICPSR23332-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23332.v1

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:
mail questionnaire,
on-site questionnaire

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: